Subject: Mixed metaphors

Mixed metaphors:

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. A mixed metaphor is the use of two or more unrelated metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined. Here are some mixed metaphors we’ve seen and heard.

From now on, I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.

Mixed metaphors

A rolling stone kills no birds.

Mixed metaphors

I have been torn betwixt and between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Mixed metaphors

That was a dialog we started down.

Mixed metaphors

Theres no grass burning under this project.

Mixed metaphors

Did you hear what they feel?

Mixed metaphors

He really grates me up the wrong way.

Mixed metaphors

Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

English former football player & manager
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

Hey, I hope you can help me, I’m kind of up against the gun here.

Mixed metaphors

Nail our fingers to the mast

Mixed metaphors

Chicken guarding the hen house

Mixed metaphors

I think the big guns will come to the boil.

English football player & manager
Mixed metaphors

That was the last hump on the camel.

Mixed metaphors

I feel like a bridegroom waiting at the altar for a blind date.

Mixed metaphors

We want to brand the Renaissance name to the eyeballs in the chairs.

Mixed metaphors

Someone's going to hang from the yardstick for this.

Mixed metaphors

I think the big guns will come to the boil.

Mixed metaphors

It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.

Mixed metaphors

They’ve tasted the other side of the coin on so many occasions.

Irish football player & broadcaster
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

The discovery of the preserved bodies “breathed new life into” Arctic exploration.

Mixed metaphors

She grabbed the bull by the horns, and ran with it.

Mixed metaphors